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Ch2 Rubenstein Vocab

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Demography   The scientific study of population characteristics  
Ecumene   A portion of the Earth occupied by permanent human settlement  
Arithmetic Density   Total number of people divided by the total land area  
Physiological Density   Number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture  
Agricultural Density   Number of farmers per unit of land suitable for agriculture  
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)   Total number of live births per year for every 1,000 people alive  
Crude Death Rate (CDR)   Total number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people alive  
Natural Increase Rate (NIR)   The percentage by which a population grows each year  
Doubling Time   Number of years needed to double a population  
Infant Mortallity Rate (IMR)   Annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 people in the population  
Life Expectancy   The average number of years a newborn can hope to live at birth  
Demographic Transition   Similar processes of change in society's population broken down into 4 stages  
Agricultural Revolution   Burst of population growth around 8000 B.C. where humans domesticated plants and animals.  
Census   A complete enumeration of a population.  
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)   When birth rate equals death rate  
Population Pyramid   Graphic that shows percentage of the total population by age group and gender  
Dependency Ratio   Ratio of the number of people to old or young to work compared to people in productive years  
Sex Ratio   Males to Females  
Pandemic   A disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high proportion of the population  
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)   Average number of children a woman will have during childbearing years  
Medical Revolution   Late 20th century push of countries into stage 2 caused by new medical technology  
Epidemiologic Transition   Focuses on distinctive causes of death in each demographic transition model  
Epidemiology   Branch of science concerned with incidence, distribution, and control of disease.  
Overpopulation   The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living  
Industrial Revolution   A conjunction of major industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to market-1750  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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